Breaking News: Number of Rohingya Girls Including Minors Raped in Northern Maung Daw

MYARF and RYM 

RB News 

February 19, 2012 

(Edited by M.S. Anwar) 

Maung Daw, Arakan - On 12:30 am of 19th February, a mass rape of Rohingya innocent girls including minors was committed by 19 Border Security Force (NaSaKa) in Ludaing (Du-Den) village tract in Northern Maung Daw. The NaSaKas came at the pretext of searching for the murderers of a Rakhine man from nearby Myo Theik Village tract, who was murdered by unknown criminals in NaSaKa Uniform, thought to be the members of Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), last week. 

Till date, our source was able to confirm 13 Rohingya girls who were victimized but still the exact number of raped victims is needed to be confirmed as many Rohingya women and girls do not share this kind of sexual assault lest their modesty should be harmed. 

The names of the confirmed raped victims are –

According to the relatives of the victims, some of the girls were assaulted in front of their family members. 

On 19th February at noon, five villagers from Du-Den village track were on their way to NaSaKa camp to file a complaint against those rapist NaSaKas, through NagPura (Ngakura) village tract. Three of them are: 

(1) Mohammed Ullah 

(2) Mabu Alam 

(3) Noor Bashar 

On hearing the news, the rapist NaSaKa blocked the villagers at NgaKura, of them one was a NGO worker. Later they released two of them including the said NGO worker but three other villagers were taken to custody. 

As we reported you here, last week, a Rakhine was murdered and three others were injured by unknown criminals whom villagers thought to be member of ALP, a Rakhine Separatist Arm-Group, possibly to increase the harassment against the friendless and voicless Rohingya community. NaSaKa has already arrested many innocent Rohingyas on false and arbitrary allegation of taking part of the murder case. 

One day NaSaKa arrest a group of Rohingyas and on the other day, they release them after the extortion of humungous amount of money. It has been going on for days. Today, 22 Rohingya men arrested for no reasons were released after extorting 1,500,000 Kyats each. In this way, they are crippling Rohingya community economically and degrading emotionally by raping even the under-aged girls. The violence against Rohingyas seems to be increasing day by day.